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American City Business Journals, Inc. and its licensors. All rights. reserved.http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/alexandria-are-tmg-soma-505-brannan-development-sf.htmlSoMa tech office building wants to get 3 times taller after it's builtThu, 30 Jul 2015 20:21:50 +0000Cory Weinberghttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/alexandria-are-tmg-soma-505-brannan-development-sf.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/5849351/501-505-brannan-street-rendering-bluxome-facade*100xx476-476-162-0.jpg">An office building already approved to rise 85 feet in the South of Market neighborhood could get a big growth spurt after it gets constructed.
Development giants Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE) and TMG Partners filed preliminary plans this week for a 165-foot-tall, $38 million expansion to their approved 505 Brannan St. office building in San Francisco.
Alexandria and TMG would go forward initially to speculatively build the 135,000-square-foot first phase of 505 Brannan, which already…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/ucsf-sf-general-hospital-research-center-expansion.htmlUCSF gets OKs for $188 million new research center, part of $600 million pipelineThu, 30 Jul 2015 18:30:16 +0000Chris Rauberhttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/ucsf-sf-general-hospital-research-center-expansion.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/2583741/napolitanojanet4274pv14*100xx2800-2800-0-178.jpg">UCSF has won preliminary approvals from the University of California's Board of Regents and City Hall for its proposed $188 million new research center on the San Francisco General Hospital campus.
But that project is just one of several new big-bucks projects that the University of California, San Francisco, has in the works that could result in $600 million in construction work between 2016 and 2019. All are too new to have renderings or details, but together the three could flesh out UCSF's expanding…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/apple-dives-into-soma-for-first-big-s-f-aapl.htmlApple dives into SoMa for first big S.F. real estate grabWed, 29 Jul 2015 21:41:44 +0000Cory Weinberghttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/apple-dives-into-soma-for-first-big-s-f-aapl.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6569322/235-2ndst072915tj-3*100xx3456-3456-864-0.jpg">The San Francisco office market may get its first big bite of Apple.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reached an agreement to rent about 76,000 square feet of office space in the South of Market neighborhood’s 235 Second St., several real estate sources in San Francisco and Silicon Valley said.
The potential sublease is a modest amount of space for a company with the world’s largest market capitalization ($705 billion) that is constructing a 2.8 million-square-foot “Spaceship” campus in Cupertino.
But…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/1900-broadway-oakland-uptown-housing-tower.html33-story tower in Oakland's Uptown nears final voteWed, 29 Jul 2015 21:36:21 +0000Roland Lihttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/1900-broadway-oakland-uptown-housing-tower.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6575962/screen-shot-2015-07-29-at-25700-pm*100xx872-872-212-0.png">Developer Seth Hamalian is nearing potential approval for a 33-story residential tower in the heart of Oakland's Uptown neighborhood.
The proposed tower at 1900-1944 Broadway would have 345 residential units and 9,724 square feet of ground floor retail, according to plans filed with the city. The Oakland Planning Commission is scheduled for a final vote on the project on Aug. 5. The decision could be appealed to the City Council. Hamalian declined to comment.
The project would incorporate an existing…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/union-square-sf-340-mason-st-rooftop-restaurant.htmlExclusive: Developers plot rooftop restaurant in revamp of Union Square buildingWed, 29 Jul 2015 12:30:59 +0000Annie Sciaccahttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/union-square-sf-340-mason-st-rooftop-restaurant.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6562732/screen-shot-2015-07-28-at-15108-pm*100xx894-894-182-0.png">A new rooftop restaurant could be headed to Union Square.
San Francisco-based Axis Development Group has purchased the building at 340 Mason St. and has big plans for its redevelopment, including an exterior renovation and the addition of a 5,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant.
Earlier: Most anticipated restaurant openings of 2015
Axis Development’s managing partners, Theo Oliphant and Muhammad Nadhiri, have teamed up with real estate veteran Julie Taylor, executive vice president at Colliers…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/lake-merritt-tower-developer-affordable-units-udr.htmlControversial Lake Merritt tower developer adds affordable units to new bid, loses high-profile financial backerTue, 28 Jul 2015 20:54:24 +0000Roland Lihttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/lake-merritt-tower-developer-affordable-units-udr.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/1375311/oakland-lake-merritt-walking*100xx1936-1936-328-0.jpg">When Oakland reopened bids for a parcel near Lake Merritt earlier this month, the move was seen as the potential end for developer UrbanCore's proposal for a 298-unit market-rate tower on the site, which would have been one of the largest new housing projects in the city.
But UrbanCore said Tuesday that it was planning to bid again for the site by the city's deadline of Sept. 12. But this time, the developer will partner with an affordable housing developer and submit a new plan with affordable…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/oakland-kaiser-convention-center-orton-crowdfund.htmlCan Oakland’s Kaiser convention center deliver money for the masses?Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:57:47 +0000Cory Weinberghttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/oakland-kaiser-convention-center-orton-crowdfund.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/4573631/kaisersliderafter*100xx1267-1267-327-0.jpg">The profits from a renewed Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center may not just pad city coffers and big-time investment funds. Money could trickle into the pockets of anyone who wants to make a bet on the building's success.
Emeryville-based Orton Development Inc., which the Oakland City Council picked to renovate the landmark last week, will include real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise as part of its project team.
What the Kaiser convention center could become: Before and after photo
The city-owned…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/fluid-latham-square-oakland-lease-sf-spillover.htmlFacing steep rent increase, S.F. tech tenant moves to OaklandMon, 27 Jul 2015 21:51:50 +0000Roland Lihttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/fluid-latham-square-oakland-lease-sf-spillover.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/3304381/lathamsquare-1*100xx465-465-88-0.jpg">Another San Francisco technology company is making the jump across the bay to Oakland, drawn by a big discount in office rents and a burgeoning local retail and arts scene.
Fluid, a web design and software firm focusing on the retail sector, is leasing 16,000 square feet at Oakland's Latham Square Building at 1611 Telegraph Ave. The company is taking two full floors in the property, where landlords Ridge Capital Investors LLC and Contrarian Capital Management LLC are investing $10 million in renovations…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/van-ness-housing-cathedral-hill-cpmc-build-inc-sf.htmlDeveloper adds 120 apartments to wave of housing hitting S.F.'s Van Ness corridorMon, 27 Jul 2015 21:40:20 +0000Cory Weinberghttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/van-ness-housing-cathedral-hill-cpmc-build-inc-sf.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6551402/screen-shot-2015-07-27-at-23258-pm*100xx522-522-227-0.png">San Francisco-based developer Build Inc. wants to keep pumping the waves of housing hitting the Van Ness corridor in anticipation of new public transit upgrades and the construction of a major hospital.
Build Inc. just filed a proposal to construct a new 14-story, 120-unit apartment building at 830 Eddy St., the latest of several projects with at least 100 units proposed or just built in the area around Van Ness Avenue between Civic Center and Washington Street.
(Scroll to the bottom of the story…http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/1400-el-camino-real-menlo-park-hotel-development.htmlExclusive: New boutique hotel heads to Menlo ParkFri, 24 Jul 2015 20:47:54 +0000Annie Sciaccahttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/07/1400-el-camino-real-menlo-park-hotel-development.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search
<img src="http://media.bizj.us/view/img/6541422/menlo-park-hotel-image*100xx5424-5424-1338-0.jpg">A new boutique hotel could be headed to Menlo Park.
Pollock Realty Corp. has submitted an application to redevelop a former Shell gas station into a small hotel at 1400 El Camino Real.
The proposal includes building a 63-room "boutique-style" hotel that reaches four stories and includes an underground parking level on the half-acre site.
According to the project architect, Mark Hornberger of San Francisco-based firm Hornberger + Worstell, the hotel will also include a 60-seat restaurant, although…